the miss rockaway armada, pirate utopias of the barbary coast, airstream trailers, big city blackouts, smith-corona manual typewriters, the atlantic ocean, topographic maps, university towns, winter hottub parties, typewriter erotics, your p.g. wodehouse novels, ambiguity, arts and crafts, fluidity of meanings, cephalopods, mollusks, dinosaurs, anchors, enthusiasm, mornings after, other people's weddings, sailors on shore leave, blogs about food, scandals (not mine), leaving flowers on windshields, eating people's crusts, reading stories out loud in bed, arby's 5 for 5, canadian money, shark week, mispronouncing words i've never heard out loud before, knee-jerk liberal arguments, decadent vegan cuisine, diner therapy, decaying film and manipulating negatives, sitting in airport terminals, rooftop barbeques, the oregon trail, easily excitable people, bedroom eyes and piggy back rides, lucid dreaming, refridgerator doors that don't fall off, housing swaps, ipod swaps, forehead kisses, proper grammer, vintage baby buggies, picnic dresses, tree houses, making lists about lists, empty 24-hour grocery stores, really terrible advice, letters and packages (snail mail in general), driving instead of flying, vagabonds and wayfarers (and letting them stay on my futon), aggressive people watching, learning how to cook, knit and ride a bike with no hands, watching my cat while she tries to fit into this world as a human, long conversations with people much smarter than i am, accounting, clean sheets, cold pizza, first dates, second dates, public transit, speed scrabble, mixing curse levels, voluptuosity, wine anytime, your boyfriend, thinking about doing things in the future or near future, flash mobs circa 2004 and cartography
my weekends. i'm repossessing them.
is good for you.
benny and joon
patricia highsmith, edward gorey, warren ellis, mark z. danielewski, shel silverstein, italo calvino
wikipedia, craig's list and google's "did you mean" feature